December, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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HEADS OF GRAIN l iPPOlQ fl DIFFERENT FIEIDS 



Easier Plan of The following diagram 



Prying Hives shows a device of my 



Apart invention for aiding 



beekeepers in pryiiig 

 off supers more easily than the ordinary way. 



The two pieces are made of strong metal 

 which will readily stand all possible strain to 

 which they may be subjected. They are at- 

 tached near the corner of the hive, and a 

 screwdriver or other tool inserted as shown 

 in the figure. A slight downward pressure 

 loosens the super immediately. 



Hector, Minn. Elmer Anderson. 



Forest Leaves in 

 Bags for Winter 

 Packing Material 



I don 't see why, in all 

 that is said about ma- 

 terials for packing, we 

 do not hear more of 

 forest leaves (or any other material) in bur- 

 lap bags. The bags of leaves can be put 

 into any place in the fall, taken off at what- 

 ever time there is occasion for inspection, 

 and removed when desired the next spring, 

 all without scattering any of the leaves into 

 a place where they don 't belong. A bag 

 loosely filled will pack into any place where 

 an equal quantity of loose leaves would go; 

 or if a few bags are filled tightly, and put 

 on all sides of a hive, having the crevices 

 between the rounded bags filled with loose 

 leaves, the thinnest-walled cracker-box may 

 be made into so warm a skep that the bees 

 will not know whether it is warm or cold. ■ 

 Ballard Vale, Mass. Steven T. Byington. 



ziO^Qf: 



How to Get Kid A friend of mine who 



of Pollen-clogged is an experienced bee- 

 Combs keeper recently showed 

 me some perfectly good 

 brood-combs that he had discarded simply 

 because they were filled with pollen. In this 

 vallev it is not uncommon to see combs thus 



clogged. It occurred to me that some read- 

 ers of Gleanings might like to try my way. 

 Place the clogged combs al)ove an excluder 

 with the queen and plenty of brood, and the 

 pollen will rapidly disappear. The explana- 

 tion seems to be that the workers have diffi- 

 culty in carrying pollen thru the excluder, 

 hence a shortage of pollen in the super. 

 Campbell, Cal. C. F. Alexander. 



A Big Gain for During the past sea- 



Only Seven Days son we experienced an 



unusual gain in the 

 scale hive for the period of July 9-15. Dur- 

 ing these seven days the scale hive showed 

 a total gain of 81 pounds, or an average foT 

 the seven days of 11 4/7 pounds. This was 

 only from clover — white and alsike. We 

 mav have established a record for clover. 



July 



pounds. 



Eain then cheeked the gain, altho as good 

 gains were made several times afterward, 

 but not for seven consecutive days. The 

 total gains of this hive were 312 pounds, the 

 highest being from basswood, 14 pounds in 

 one day. The basswood flow was cut very 

 short by a 'rainstorm. 



Minnesota Honey Farm. 



Foreston, Minn. 



How one beekeeper advertises. 



